Chapter Summaries

Jing Hongchen reconsidered his loyalties as Ji Siyuan arrived at Virtuous Hall and warned that Jing would eventually be sidelined. As Xu Tianran prepared to launch his coup with the Holy Spirit Cult’s backing, Kong Deming summoned Jing Hongchen, whose choice could affect the struggle.

• Ji Siyuan visited Jing Hongchen at Virtuous Hall, questioned his shifting loyalties, and said he had come to pick someone up and look around.
• Jing Hongchen kept Ji Siyuan at Virtuous Hall as a possible escape route, while Shangguan Wei'er prepared to leave for Shrek City.
• Ji Siyuan searched for Huo Yutong but could not find her, so he wandered around Virtuous Hall instead.
• Jing Hongchen received an invitation from Kong Deming to the Sun Moon Empire’s Worship Hall, while Xu Tianran’s spies reported Ji Siyuan’s visit.
• Xu Tianran learned that Long Xiaoyao had arrived and declared that the coup would begin the next day, promising Zhongli Wu the role of Imperial Preceptor.

Xu Tianran launched his coup against the Sun Moon Emperor, seizing control of much of the Royal Soul Engineer Legion as he advanced into the palace. Ju Zi and the Holy Spirit Cult pursued their own plans during the takeover, while Xu Tianran prepared to confront his father.

• Xu Tianran dressed for his planned ascension and led his forces toward the imperial palace as the three stationed legions faced off under tense orders.
• The Sun Moon Emperor awoke from his supposed coma, ordered the palace defenses activated, and sent the Royal Soul Engineer Legion to stop Xu Tianran.
• Xu Tianran attacked the legion’s vice commander, and most of the force submitted after being incapacitated; Ju Zi then directed a massacre of those who resisted.
• Xu Tianran and Ju Zi entered the palace, where Ju Zi revealed that the Imperial Preceptors had intercepted another Royal Soul Engineer unit, angering Xu Tianran.
• Ye Xishui ordered Zhongli Wu to help Xu Tianran while sending Ming Lei to Virtuous Hall, and she prepared for the Holy Spirit Cult to intervene at a crucial moment.
• Xu Tianran swallowed his anger over the Holy Spirit Cult’s actions and continued toward his father.

Xu Tianran’s coup against the old emperor turned into a confrontation between the empire’s Soul Engineers and the Holy Spirit Cult. As Kong Deming wielded a Tenth-Level Soul Tool against Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao, the fighting broke out across the palace.

• Zhongli Wu ordered Ming Lei to wreck Virtuous Hall and retrieve its Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast embryo, while Ye Xishui sent the Holy Spirit Cult’s worshippers to slaughter the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Legion.
• Xu Tianran confronted the old emperor, but Jing Hongchen and more than ten Level Nine Soul Engineers appeared to support the emperor, with Kong Deming revealed as their backer.
• Kong Deming urged Xu Tianran to abandon the coup, and the Soul Engineer Legions outside Radiant City stopped fighting each other and advanced toward the imperial palace.
• Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui arrived to support Xu Tianran, while Zhongli Wu revealed that Virtuous Hall had been destroyed and its embryo fed to his Soul Beast.
• Kong Deming brought out a Tenth-Level Soul Tool, and Ye Xishui summoned Death God’s Tower as the battle erupted; Wang Yiheng activated Mortal Love while fighting the Evil Soul Masters.

Ji Siyuan explored Virtuous Hall until a Holy Spirit Cult assault broke out, then realized the attackers were searching for Snow Empress. As the Soul Engineers fought to hold them back, Ji Siyuan set off to rescue her.

• Ji Siyuan used his identification token to explore Virtuous Hall and map the rooms while avoiding disturbing the Soul Engineers.
• A sudden explosion breached Virtuous Hall, and Ji Siyuan recognized the invading attackers as Evil Soul Masters from the Holy Spirit Cult.
• The Soul Engineers activated their defenses, but Ming Lei Douluo disabled the hall's Soul Tools with his own Level Nine Soul Engineer expertise.
• Virtuous Hall's Level Nine Soul Engineers joined the battle, while Ming Lei and You Ming Douluo led the assault and the Evil Soul Masters drove the defenders back.
• Ji Siyuan realized the attackers were searching for the hundred-thousand-year Snow Empress and went to rescue her, determined to keep his promise.

Ji Siyuan rescued Snow Empress from the God-Sealing Platform, and she destroyed the Evil Soul Masters who entered the laboratory. After stabilizing her dissipating origin power with a divine-grade lotus seed, Snow Empress agreed to help Ji Siyuan save Huo Yutong, though she reacted jealously when he mentioned his girlfriend.

• Snow Empress counted down her final minute of hope until Ji Siyuan burned through the laboratory door and freed her from the God-Sealing Platform.
• Snow Empress embraced Ji Siyuan, then unleashed her Three Ultimates and killed Ming Lei, You Ming, and the other Evil Soul Masters in the blizzard.
• Snow Empress revealed that her origin power was dissipating, and Ji Siyuan gave her a divine-grade lotus seed to stabilize it.
• Snow Empress spoke of dual cultivation, but Ji Siyuan mentioned his girlfriend and asked Snow Empress to help save Huo Yutong.
• Snow Empress spared the Soul Engineers outside and agreed to leave with Ji Siyuan to help him.

Huo Yutong infiltrated the Holy Spirit Cult and was caught in the battle that brought Xu Tianran to power. Surrounded and near collapse, she called for Ji Siyuan to save her.

• Huo Yutong entered the Holy Spirit Cult using Necromancy and joined its assault on the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Legion.
• At the battle in Radiant City, Wang Yiheng's attack exposed Huo Yutong's Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, drawing the forces on both sides to target her.
• Xu Tianran killed the old emperor, claimed power, and offered Huo Yutong's Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone as a reward to whoever killed her.
• As Huo Yutong's strength failed, she imagined speaking with her deceased mother, Huo Yun'er, who urged her to call for Ji Siyuan.
• Huo Yutong returned to the battlefield and cried out for Siyuan to save her.

Ji Siyuan arrived in the palace as Huo Yutong collapsed, then unleashed overwhelming sword power against the Sun Moon Empire and Holy Spirit Cult. After killing Xu Tianran and shattering Radiant City’s defenses, he departed, leaving behind a sword cut that split half of Sun Moon Continent and let the sea rush into the city.

• Huo Yutong called for Siyuan, and Ji Siyuan arrived in time to catch her while the Snow Empress attacked the palace.
• The Snow Empress fought Ye Xishui, Long Xiaoyao, and Kong Deming as Ji Siyuan defended Huo Yutong from soul masters and Soul Tools.
• Ji Siyuan drew his sword and destroyed Soul Tool emplacements, killed Holy Spirit Cult offerings, and severed Wang Yiheng’s arm.
• Ji Siyuan rose above Radiant City with the Snow Empress and Huo Yutong, and his power forced nearly the entire city to kneel.
• Ji Siyuan destroyed the palace’s defenses, killed Xu Tianran, and left Radiant City as no one dared pursue him.
• Ji Siyuan’s sword stroke carved a vast path through Sun Moon Continent, allowing seawater to surge into Radiant City.

Ji Siyuan’s devastating sword strike crippled Sun Moon’s forces and spread across the continent, while his allies learned he had survived but was gravely injured. As Wang Dong'er and Di Qiu'er tried to reach him, Di Tian stopped them and insisted they trust his divine power of Life.

• Ji Juechen witnessed the river carved by Ji Siyuan’s sword, while Da Ming and Er Ming sensed its divine power and concluded they could not contact Tang San for help.
• Ye Xishui, Long Xiaoyao, and Kong Deming assessed Radiant City’s losses, including the deaths of the Fourth and Fifth Worships and the destruction of the soul engineer legions’ accumulated supplies.
• The sword strike’s story spread across the continent, prompting Du Busi to fly to Radiant City in search of Ji Siyuan and Shrek’s elders to organize a search for him.
• Xu Jiawei learned that Sun Moon’s forces had been crippled and began preparing the Star Luo Empire for war.
• Wang Dong'er and Di Qiu'er sensed through Fate Sharing that Ji Siyuan was unconscious and near death, then set out to find him.
• Di Tian blocked the two girls from entering Sun Moon, saying they had to trust Ji Siyuan to survive because he possessed the divine power of Life.

After Ji Siyuan collapsed from the sword’s backlash, Huo Yutong and Snow Empress struggled to keep him alive until Tang San revealed a way to heal him. As they carried Ji Siyuan toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Huo Yutong learned his true origins and Snow Empress promised to protect him.

• Ji Siyuan collapsed after wielding the Sword of Three Realms Judgment, and Huo Yutong and Snow Empress used life force and life divine power to keep him alive.
• Tang San said the Lovesick Heartbreak Red at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well could restore Ji Siyuan, and Snow Empress and Huo Yutong began carrying him toward the Heaven Dou Empire on an ice bed.
• Tang San revealed that he and Ji Siyuan came from another God Realm, where Tang San was the Asura God and Ji Siyuan was the child of the God Kings Goodness and Evil.
• Huo Yutong vowed to stand with Ji Siyuan and treat his enemies as her own.
• Snow Empress promised to protect Ji Siyuan until he recovered, then said she would return to the Extreme North; Huo Yutong told her that a friend wanted to meet her.

The Snow Empress reunited with the Ice Empress and learned that her concern for Ji Siyuan looked much like Huo Yutong’s affection for him. With their destination confirmed, the group hurried toward the Sunset Forest and crossed into the Heaven Dou Empire.

• The Ice Empress told the Snow Empress how she had become Huo Yutong’s Soul Spirit, while the Snow Empress explained how Ji Siyuan had rescued her from the God-Sealing Platform.
• The Ice Empress pointed out that the Snow Empress spoke about Ji Siyuan often and looked at him the way Huo Yutong did, prompting the Snow Empress to question her feelings.
• Tang San told Huo Yutong that Qiu'er had taken human form and was waiting with Dong'er, while the Snow Empress reacted sharply to their names.
• A green meteor streaked toward the Heaven Dou Empire, and Huo Yutong’s group hurried after it with the Snow Empress using her Ultimate Ice to keep pace and deter soldiers.
• Sun Moon Empire troops let the group pass, and members of the Earth Dragon Sect helped them cross the Heaven Dou Empire’s border.

Tang San led Ji Siyuan and their companions to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where they found the valley sealed behind dangerous plants and guarded by powerful plant-type soul beasts. The Snow Empress cleared their path, but the group still had to face the soul beasts to find the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and save Ji Siyuan.

• Tang San guided the group through Sunset Forest and noticed that its miasma had grown unusually dense.
• Tang San discovered that Jade Phosphorus Seven Absolute Flowers and Jade Phosphorus Nine Absolute Flowers had sealed the way to the valley.
• The Snow Empress used Snow Dance Sunflare to freeze the flowers and open an ice path for the group.
• Tang San warned the others that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well's accelerated growth had likely produced many Hundred-Thousand-Year plant soul beasts.
• The group saw the plant soul beasts guarding the valley, and Huo Yutong and the Snow Empress vowed to save Ji Siyuan.

Huo Yutong picked a Lovesick Heartbreak Red for Ji Siyuan, healing his body but not the severe damage to his Sea of Consciousness. When Tang San realized a second flower might help, the Snow Empress picked it, leaving them with another chance to awaken Ji Siyuan.

• Huo Yutong, the Snow Empress, and Tang San entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where the Aromatic Silk Beauty and Infernal Delicate Apricot recognized Tang San and revealed the Lovesick Heartbreak Red's location.
• Huo Yutong recalled her love for Ji Siyuan, offered her heart's blood, and picked the first Lovesick Heartbreak Red before feeding it to him.
• Ji Siyuan's body began recovering, but Tang San found that his shattered Sea of Consciousness still needed more medicinal power and asked for Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng.
• When none was available, Tang San proposed using a second Lovesick Heartbreak Red, and Youyou revealed where another grew.
• Huo Yutong could not safely produce more heart's blood, so Tang San and Electrolux persuaded her to rest while Life's divine power sustained Ji Siyuan.
• The Snow Empress thought of Ji Siyuan and the words he had spoken to save her, then offered her heart's blood and picked the second Lovesick Heartbreak Red.

Ji Siyuan awoke after Snow Empress chose a second Lovesick Heartbreak Red to save him, and learned that she loved him. When Snow Empress’s unstable essence erupted into flames, he saved her through their union, and she became his Soul Spirit and wife as he advanced to Soul Emperor.

• Snow Empress fed Ji Siyuan the second Lovesick Heartbreak Red, restoring his life force and healing his Sea of Consciousness.
• Huo Yutong told Ji Siyuan that Snow Empress had chosen the herb for him, leaving him troubled by her feelings and unsure how to respond.
• Snow Empress’s cultivation triggered Reversal of Fortune, and flames from Ji Siyuan’s Lotus Seed began burning her essence.
• Ji Siyuan entered the cold spring and used the Red Lotus Sky Curtain to save Snow Empress through the union of yin and yang.
• After regaining consciousness, Snow Empress asked to become Ji Siyuan’s Soul Spirit, and he accepted her as his wife.
• Snow Empress became Ji Siyuan’s Soul Spirit, and he gained an orange sixth Soul Ring and reached level sixty.

Ji Siyuan absorbed the Snow Empress’s Soul Bone, gained an orange-gold Soul Ring and new ice-and-fire abilities, then gave Huo Yutong the God of Emotions’ God Position Seed. Huo Yutong accepted the inheritance and resolved to stand beside Ji Siyuan and help him find his way home.

• Ji Siyuan absorbed the Snow Empress’s seven-hundred-thousand-year torso Soul Bone, raising his Soul Power to Rank 65 and giving him an orange-gold Soul Ring.
• Ji Siyuan explained that the Snow Empress’s Soul Ring and Soul Bone granted flame-based variations of her Three Ultimates, as well as the ability to use Ultimate Ice.
• Ji Siyuan asked Tang San and Electrolux to conceal him and Huo Yutong, then gave her the God of Emotions’ God Position Seed.
• Huo Yutong initially protested that the God Position Seed was too precious, but accepted it after Ji Siyuan reassured her.
• Huo Yutong received the God of Emotions inheritance, whose seven emotional trials would proceed simultaneously before two further trials.

Ji Siyuan and Huo Yutong gathered immortal herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, strengthening Huo Yutong and raising Ji Siyuan’s Soul Power. They left with herbs and soul beasts for their plans, including Aromatic Silk Beauty, while Tang San and Electrolux cautioned them against advancing too quickly.

• Ji Siyuan gave Huo Yutong the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, strengthening her Spirit Eye and raising her Purple Demon Eye to the Mustard Seed Realm.
• Ji Siyuan used Youyou to locate the Star Luo Spirit Pearl, refined it, and raised his Soul Power to level 67.
• Huo Yutong accepted the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass as a Soul Spirit, reaching Soul Power level 64 as her martial souls gained Soul Rings.
• Tang San and Electrolux warned Huo Yutong and Ji Siyuan not to rely too heavily on immortal herbs, so Ji Siyuan stopped refining them.
• Ji Siyuan threatened Aromatic Silk Beauty and took petals and other herbs to brew Hundred Flowers Immortal Wine.
• Ji Siyuan invited Aromatic Silk Beauty and the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum to leave with them as Soul Spirits, then gathered more herbs and soul beasts before everyone departed.

Ji Siyuan gathered immortal herbs and changed his plans to head for the Extreme North with Huo Yutong, while the Snow Empress arranged for Xiao Bai to become Huo Yutong’s Soul Spirit. In Radiant City, Du Busi confronted Jing Hongchen, and mounting suspicion pushed Jing Hongchen to approach Xuan Ziwen about leaving Virtuous Hall for Shrek.

• Ji Siyuan collected immortal herbs and told Huo Yutong he would brew them into wine.
• The Snow Empress proposed trading Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow for something in the Extreme North and entrusting Xiao Bai to Huo Yutong as a Soul Spirit.
• Ji Siyuan abandoned his earlier plans and set out for the Extreme North with Huo Yutong.
• Du Busi stormed into Radiant City to demand Ji Siyuan’s whereabouts, but Kong Deming and two other Limit Douluo-level fighters confronted him.
• Kong Deming told Du Busi that Ji Siyuan and the Snow Empress had headed toward the Heaven Dou Empire, and Du Busi left after suggesting the Sun Moon Empire could do without an emperor.
• Suspected of colluding with Du Busi and other factions, Jing Hongchen asked Xuan Ziwen whether he still wanted to leave Virtuous Hall for Shrek.

Ji Siyuan and Huo Yutong traveled with Snow Empress and Ice Empress into the Extreme North, where Snow Empress worried about its vulnerability to human resource hunters. Snow Empress invited Ji Siyuan to dance, and the two became lovers beneath the snow.

• Ji Siyuan, Huo Yutong, Snow Empress, and Ice Empress entered the Extreme North's Core Zone and discussed how the region might be threatened by humans seeking resources.
• Ji Siyuan suggested protecting the Extreme North through stronger security and human laws, and Snow Empress agreed that its ice and snow soul beasts needed protection.
• Snow Empress asked Huo Yutong to cultivate, then danced alone in the wind and snow before inviting Ji Siyuan to join her.
• Ji Siyuan danced with Snow Empress, and they fell into the snow together as Ice Empress covered for them.
• Snow Empress told Ji Siyuan she wanted to make up for the years she had waited for him, and they united as lovers.

The Snow Empress gathered the soul beasts of the Extreme North, announced Atai as her successor, and decided to leave with Xiaobai. She arranged for Xiaobai to become Huo Yutong’s Soul Spirit, and he agreed to the plan.

• Huo Yutong sensed a tide of soul beasts approaching, and the Snow Empress and Ice Empress welcomed them as they gathered before the Snow Empress.
• The Ice Empress introduced Xiaobai, the Ice Bear King, and Atai greeted the Snow Empress and met the Ice Empress.
• The Snow Empress announced that she was nearing her seventh heavenly tribulation, named Atai the next ruler of the Extreme North, and told the beasts to leave and let him inspect his territory.
• Xiaobai pleaded to remain with the Snow Empress, who explained that she would take him with her because his next heavenly tribulation would be difficult to survive without her help.
• The Snow Empress introduced Ji Siyuan and Huo Yutong to Xiaobai, and Huo Yutong gave him Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow as a meeting gift.
• The Snow Empress asked Xiaobai to become Huo Yutong’s Soul Spirit, and Xiaobai agreed before beginning to absorb the Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow.

Huo Yutong turned the injured Ice Bear King Xiaobai into her Soul Spirit before a Lightning Tribulation could strike, then absorbed his three-hundred-thousand-year External Soul Bone. She reached level 67 and described the powerful Soul Skills she had gained, leaving her with an enormous arsenal of abilities.

• Xiaobai’s absorption of the Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow summoned a Lightning Tribulation, so Huo Yutong quickly made him her Soul Spirit and the tribulation clouds dispersed.
• Huo Yutong summoned Xiaobai, and she and Ji Siyuan discovered that he had produced an Ice Bear King Right Palm Bone that was an External Soul Bone.
• At Snow Empress’s suggestion, Xiaobai helped Huo Yutong absorb the Soul Bone, and she reached level 67.
• Huo Yutong explained that the External Soul Bone granted Frost Silence Cold Tribulation Claw and Eternal Frozen Ice Soul.
• Huo Yutong described her Spirit Eye’s sixth-ring skills, Dirge-Soulshaking Cry and Mourning Heart Resonance: Life Beyond Dreams, along with her many other ice-attribute abilities.

After warning Atai about the danger of human Soul Tools and making him the new king of the Extreme North, Ji Siyuan and Huo Yutong accepted the Snow Empress Token. Huo Yutong renewed her resolve to avenge her mother by killing Dai Hao, and Ji Siyuan promised they would face him together after reaching the Soul Sage level.

• The Titan Snow Demon King returned and reported that the tribes of the Extreme North had accepted him as their king.
• Huo Yutong used her Soul Tools to demonstrate to Atai that humans could threaten even powerful Soul Beasts, and the Snow Empress urged him to remain wary of humans.
• The Snow Empress gave Atai Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow from Ji Siyuan and Huo Yutong, and Atai handed Ji Siyuan the Snow Empress Token.
• Huo Yutong said she wanted revenge on Dai Hao, and Ji Siyuan promised they would kill him together once they reached the Soul Sage level.